Poverty Knowledge
Subtitle: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780691009179
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Poverty; Social History; 20th century; Public Policy - Social Policy; Income Maintenance Programs; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; United States - 20th Century; American History; Social Science / Sociology / General; History; Economic assistance, Domestic; Poor; United States
First sentence: AT THE END of the nineteenth century social investigators in several of the world's most advanced industrial societies set out to bring new scientific understanding to the problem of poverty.